The best time to make friends is before you need them.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure – if you don’t like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don’t like it, you don’t understand and you ought to find out.

I never let them cough. They wouldn’t dare.

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I’m happy.

You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

[On Hollywood:] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.